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The difference is that it’s Open source, so you could certainly verify if you wanted to.
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Hmmm, "web tech" includes DRM stuff these days. So that's not 100% always true any more.
Gimp 3 Beta Released
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Re: Gimp 3 Beta Released
#62Does anyone know about CMYK support? I remember years ago it was a planned feature, but recently I tried to gather info about it and could not find anything. Has the team decided to remove it from scope? Currently I know of Cyan[1] as an open source tool that I can use to prepare an asset for printing, happy to hear about any other good alternatives. [1] http://cyan.fxarena.net/
Maybe krita [0] could do the job for you?
[0] https://docs.krita.org/en/general_concepts/colors/color_mode...
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#63I can't explain why but I keep getting the uncanny valley feeling whenever I try to use GIMP after years of Photoshop. Hopefully the improved device support will help
Having used Photoshop almost daily between the 5 and CS3 days (after switching from PaintShop Pro) I still find GIMP an absolute pain to use aside from fairly basic re-touching and adjustment or 'oh look generic word-art' despite repeatedly giving it second chances. The GIMP just doesn't manage to hit the productivity nexus for anything constructive. Simple things are annoying, complex things are infuriating, vector…
Do you want a vector graphics program or a bitmap graphics program? Can you name a scenario, where both must be in the same tool? Otherwise Gimp is not what you are looking for, if you want to do vector graphics stuff.
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#64imagine a world where blender/kdenlive/gimp/libreoffice are proper alternatives to commercial software and people use them just because they are not "web based" or subscription only or avoid linux users like the plague which adobe/autodesk/microsoft do with their products.
At least Blender is starting to be seriously considered in that space.
LibreOffice would be a "maybe", depending on some factors. The others though, seemd to be a ways off.
Re: Gimp 3 Beta Released
#65Does anyone know about CMYK support? I remember years ago it was a planned feature, but recently I tried to gather info about it and could not find anything. Has the team decided to remove it from scope? Currently I know of Cyan[1] as an open source tool that I can use to prepare an asset for printing, happy to hear about any other good alternatives. [1] http://cyan.fxarena.net/
Maybe krita [0] could do the job for you? [0] https://docs.krita.org/en/general_concepts/colors/color_mode...
EDIT: I just tested importing a few different image formats and didn't have any issues, so Krita could be a good alternative.
Thanks, I was aware that Krita could do CMYK but how about importing assets created in other programs? Can it import any type of image files? I ask because I thought that Krita was more of a drawing/painting program and I'm not familiar with its import capabilites.
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Yes, but the website owner can change its source code at any time, and even serve differently JS for each user, puting the entire responsibility on the user shoulder to check the code behavior all the time. It's not as demanding with an open source app with distributed source code and versioning. So I don't understand the snark, and how it is helpful.
Same goes for open source builds, you have to either build it yourself or trust the supplied builds.
reproducible builds are a thing but yeah no easy solution out there for binary/code authenticity
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#68That's an old post from 2020. Here's a more recent beta from February 2022: https://www.gimp.org/news/2022/02/25/gimp-2-99-10-released/
That's better, but even that one is old enough to make me wonder why it would be on the front page in May.
I saw a post about a new Inkscape release yesterday, and at least for me, those two programs sort of live in the same neighborhood within my brain. Maybe OP's mental real estate situation is similar?
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#69dude, this is really weird. my firefox on kde neon is not showing scrollbar on the side. is this because of some JS fuckery? it "feels" weird
Firefox decided scrollbars are not cool anymore.
yes this is sad
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#70I now find myself using Photopea more than GIMP. Photopea is a browser-based photoshop clone. From what I understand it was built by just one guy, and it is in some ways better than GIMP. Pretty amazing work.
Gotta be real, Gimp's not that far off from just one guy ( https://github.com/GNOME/gimp/graphs/contributors ) We all assume there's a vast army of dedicated people behind these things. Most people do just a tiny bit and don't stick around. The reality is the core ranks are thin and the troops are exhausted. If you've got the time, they could use a hand (this is for all open source projects) They people behind them a…
Yeah, it's a bit better for projects with corporate sponsors who can fund a (small) army of dedicated people to work on the project, but application software (especially if it has a widely used commercial competitor) tends to not fall into this category. I imagine OpenOffice/LibreOffice is in a similar position.